# cautela
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cautēla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəwˈtɛ.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kawˈtɛ.la]

### Noun

cautela f (plural cauteles)
* caution, care
    Synonym: cura

#### Related terms

* caut
* cautelar
* cautelós

### Further reading

* “cautela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cautela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cautela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cautela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kawˈtɛ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: cau‧tè‧la

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

#### Noun

cautela f (plural cautele)
* caution, care
    Synonym: prudenza
* precaution

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cautela
* inflection of cautelare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* cautela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From caveō (“beware”) +‎ -ēla.
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### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kau̯ˈteː.la/, [käu̯ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kau̯ˈte.la/, [käu̯ˈt̪ɛːlä]

### Noun

cautēla f (genitive cautēlae); first declension
* caution

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: cautela
* French: cautèle
** English: cautel
* Padanian:
** Emilian:
** Ligurian:
** Piedmontese:
** Romagnol: cautēla, cavtela
* Galician: cautela
* → German: Kautel
* Italian: cautela
* Occitan: cautèla
* → Portuguese: cautela
* Spanish: cautela

### References

* “cautela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* cautela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* cautela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Professor Kidd, et al. Collins Gem Latin Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers (Glasgow: 2004). →ISBN. page 51.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.lɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.lɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kawˈtɛ.la/ [kaʊ̯ˈtɛ.la]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kawˈtɛ.lɐ/

#### Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)
* caution (careful attention, prudence)
    Synonyms: cuidado, caução
* share (in a lottery)

##### Derived terms

* acautelar
* cautelar
* cauteleiro

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cautela
* inflection of cautelar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kauˈtela/ [kau̯ˈt̪e.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: cau‧te‧la

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish cabtela, borrowed from Latin cautēla (“caution”).

#### Noun

cautela f (plural cautelas)
* caution, care, caginess, chariness
* precaution
    Synonym: precaución

##### Derived terms

* cautelar
* cauteloso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cautela
* inflection of cautelar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cautela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10